David Green wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Sherman) wrote:
This bit of POD made me think about POD's lack of tabular formatting, a
common idiom in technical documentation. I know POD is still in the
wings, as it were, but I wanted to say this before I forget
/me fli
Branden wrote:
> And I'll probably ask you to use another naming/extension, like pp5 (par for
> perl 5), so that modules for both versions don't get mixed up (since they'll
> be incompatible).
That doesn't make sense. Either your script or your archive
tool (par, pun, or CPAN or whatever
Peter Scott wrote:
>
> Eh? I thought PPM was simply "perl -MCPAN -e install" for Windows users,
> pointed to a set of modules which have XS content that they'd had to fiddle
> with to port to Win32.
Not by far. It is a replacment for CPAN that builds and
maintains its own local databas
"John L. Allen" wrote:
> The use of a caret was to prevent decimation of the user's namespace,
>
> perl -e 'print -^rwx $_'
> syntax error at -e line 1, near "-^"
> Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
The only problem I have with a caret is that to me th
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> =head1 ABSTRACT
>
> File tests (-r/-w/-x/...) made sense when Perl's shellness was an
> attribute. Most new Perl programmers are not coming from a shell
> programming background, and the -X syntax is opaque and bizarre.
> It should be removed.
> is_re
gestion *did* spark an excellent idea for me to do,
> with named placeholders and named subroutine parameters. Many thanks!
We're still not even. I got quite a few ideas from your book.
Clayton
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Dave Storrs wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, David L. Nicol wrote:
>
> > Anyone for generalizing "select" to a more general "with" keyword
> > which would operate on a limited hash and be syntactic sugar for
> > replacing all appearances of unqualified variables that match
> > the hash's keys wit
Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> Let's not move backwards and force people to work like machines. Instead,
> lets force machines to work like us.
Hear, Hear! I feel that this is worth a "me too".
Clayton
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me, \%options ) {...}
> >
> > will accept:
> >
> > demo(options=>%myopts, name=>'my name');
>
> but in the case of
>
> sub demo ($name, %options) {...}
>
> what does
>
> demo($var, name => $value);
>
> do ?
ren't cats, but 10.0 really is 10...
I first thought that "==" and "eq" were cut from the same cloth as
"||" and "or" that is the difference was precedence. But I guess I
learned.
Or did I?
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)?
if (context eq 'hash') { return %hash }
elsif (context eq 'array') { return @{$hash{vector}} }
elsif (context eq 'scalar') { return $hash{vector]->[0] }
elsif (context eq 'handle') { return $hash{filehandle} }
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